The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-11-04
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

THE Americas cup committee will prepare
and print complete history of the recent trial
contests and the late famous victory.
CoNGREGArIoNALIsM is growing in Pennsylva-
MIA. 1t has now ninety-five churches in that
State and has made net gain of 80 per cent. in
church membership since 1880.
THE Strasburg library, which was destroyed
by fire during the Franco russian war, now
| contains 100000 volumes. large part Of which
have been given to the institution.
LARGE PELICAN, with a bill as long as
coal dealer was captured near Crete, Neb., last
week. 1t measured feet from tip to tip of
wings feet from the tip of its bill TO the tip OF
lts TAIL and weighed II pounds.
WAX FIGURE of Pranzini, the famous French
murderer has been added to the chamber of
horrors in Nine. Taussand's exhibition in Lon
| don. The clothes are like those worn by him on
| the morning of his execution. and the figure
has been placed near the guillotine, which is an
exact model of the one which sliced his head OIL
| WILLIAM RUSSELL SEVER, the oldest graduate
of Harvard College, died at Plymouth, Mass,
Sunday, aged 9G. His father, grandfather and
| great-grandtather all graduated from Harvard
| He graduated in 1911 in the same class with
! Edward Everett. DR.. William Perry and Prof.
John White Webster, who murdered DR.. Park
man. He was a bachelor
THERE was an extraordinary drought in ore
part of China this year. On July H. E.
Sheuf, the taotai of Cheloo customs and
| Cheloo circuit, issued proclamation
| prohibiting the killing of four-footed beasts,
and he, with some officials, went to the
Tien Hon temple to pray the gods for rain on
| the following day there was gentle ram, ana
| on the thirteenth heavy shower.
CooKEY GAMM and Shoe Peterside, sons Of ia
ia the great Oil river sovereign. will spend sew
eral years in England studying branches of
| learning not taught in their native mangrove
| Swamps II was COokey Gamm who was found
| by a traveller last year sprawled out under
| palm tree with scarcely thread of clothing on
! diligently studying algebra. Shoe Peterside has
also displayed commendabe zeal in the pursuit
of knowledge.
| DURING a recent sitting of the Council General
of the Bouches- du- Rhone, a committee APP
! pointed to examine the finances found that 800
| francs year was paid to the guardians OF the
| tower" Investigation showed that the tower
| had been suppressed since 1867 total there
| fore, of 10000 francs having been paid for
| guarding nothing for twenty years At st.
| Cloud an employee of the palace still received
| salary for waxing the floor. The palace was
| bombarded into ruins in 1870
FRANK NJ. TAYLOR, the superintendent Of the
great ocean pier at Long Branch, carries a
unique silk umbrella. The handle is topped
J with hammered gold from a s. piece found on
| the beach last winter. The stick was cut from
| one of the leaves Of ebony table which came
| over with the PuranS in the Mayfower. The
| ribs are covered with black silk taken from the
| dress worn by a lady at the time she was pulled
| from before an engine in time to save her life.
| The case, or cover is made from cloth from the
catafalque in the funeral car of President Gar
| field.
| LARGE CoNsIGNMENTs of whisky of American
| manufacture sent to Germany for storage two
years ago are now returning on the European
| steamships the freight both ways and the stor-
age being considerably less than the cost of
| keeping the liqiOrs in bonded warehouses in
| this country. During the summer the owners
| of large disteries shipped their products to
| Bremen other ports for storage and to
| avoid onerous revenue charges. Much OF the
| whisky exported is now being returned, the
limit of time it is allowed to remain out of the
| country having expired.
FREDERICK BENNETT of Newton county, Ill,
courted Anna Haywood; and as her father OBJ
| iected to the young man she eloped with him to
The State line, and, going 100 feet into Indiana,
the young folks were married under the stars.
Two days afterward Anna went home to get
her clothing. and did not return to her husband.
| Bennett then brought habeas corpus proceed
| ingS against Haywood TO get possession of his
| wife but when the case came on Anna surprised
| Frederick by going into court and swearing that
| her father wasn't keeping her at home; that she
| had had enough of Bennett, and wouldn't live
| with him any way.
Miss LOUISA ALCoTT gives the following ad-
vice TO girls: Girls, don't be in haste to wed
exercise and sleep. Learn all the useful house
hold arts before you attempt to make a home.
Cultivate your minds with the best books, that
you may be able to teach your children much
that school training alone will never give you.
! Choose your amusementS wisely. for you must
| have pleasure, but need not waste itself in
harmful frivolity. Above all, select your
| friends with care Avoid girls who live only for
fashion, fiji tation and enjoyment, and use the
| privilege all women may claim to decline the
acquaintance of young men whose lives will not
bear inspection
| Mrs. RICHARDSON, member of the Salvation
Army in Kansas City, has attracted attention by
her Sam-Jonesque preaching. Here are some
of her reputed remarks: Il haven't got any use
| for these kind of people that keep their Chris
tianity in bandbox six days in the week and
take it out on the sew nth" You can't get
Christianity into a fool any more than you can
get bologna sausage from rattlesnake." DO
you think that man with chew of tobacco in
his mouth and bottle of whisky in his pocket
is a fit temple for the spirit of God - Two I'D
try to get into heaven Just to keep out of the
company there is in hell if for no other reason -
| jay Gould will have to take his brimston
straight, just the same as the poorest criminal -
THE highest mountain in America must
now be changed from Mount st. Elias to Mount
Wrangle, little to the north. Several of these
mountains have been newly measured. Mount
| Hood, once roughly estimated at II 900 feet,
then closely at 10000, was brought down by
triangulation to 1900; an anerod barometer
made it l2.O0O. and 'nerclIrial barometer II PSI
| Mount St. Elias, estimated by D'Ageet to he 12.-
672 feet, is triangulaed by Mr. Baker to 49, 800 1t
now appears that Mount Wrangle, lying to the
| north, rises 1900 feet above Copper river
| which is in turn 1900 feet above the sea at that
| point If this holds true Mount Wrangle is at
| least 1000 feet higher than any other peak in
| North America. 1t lies within the United States
boundary.
HoMEsTAKE MINE, near Deadwood, has a rail
road twenty-five miles long to the pineries
where fuel is obtained, and the road ends at the
| top of high hill just above the mill. Here the
| wood is dumped into a chute made of heavy logs
lined with iron. The logs descend with tremen-
dous velocity, and on reaching the mouth of the
chute leap out into the air pass over the mill
and land some $50 feet from the foot of the bluff
| For hours perfect stream of logs passes over
the heads of the men at work below and to a
| newcomer it seems sufficiently dangerous but
| no accident ever occurred, and one soon gets
| over the nervous feeling Five thousand cords
| of wood are piled at a time by this arrangement
which saves tens of thousands of dollars an
nually TO the company, disposing of 80, 900 cords
a year without any cost for piling.
CONCERNING the decline of business on the
Ohio river the Louisville Commercial SAYS:
''Thirty-flve years ago we saw from ten to
fifteen steamboats, at the wharf at Smithland
| loading cotton. pig iron, etc We saw 800 to
1000 men at work in the construction of three
big steamboats,, Saw mills. foundres and other
manufactures were in successful operation.
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